Acentrogobius virdipunctatus
Greenspotted Goby
Much of what follows is drawn from a pair of field-trip photo-essays documenting a series of collecting trips between Cairns and Weipa on Cape York, which turned up an extraordinarily rich cross-section of Australia and New Guinea’s smaller estuarine and mangrove-associated gobies.
Acentrogobius virdipunctatus was photographed on the Cooktown mangrove mudflats during the first Gobioides field trip, one of several small, cryptically coloured gobies sharing that intertidal habitat with mudskippers and mangrove gobies.
Compiled for Home of the Rainbowfish from ANGFA sources: J. Lenagan, “Cairns to Weipa and back… the Gobioides. Part 1”, Fishes of Sahul 33, 2019, pp. 1448–1483.